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Message-ID: <20080414212021.5d2c351c@daedalus.pq.iki.fi>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:20:21 +0300
From: Pekka Paalanen <pq@....fi>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Pavel Roskin <proski@....org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mmiotrace: add user documentation
On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:49:55 -0400 (EDT)
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Apr 2008, Pekka Paalanen wrote:
> > +
> > +[Unimplemented feature:]
> > +During tracing you can place comments (markers) into the trace by
> > +$ echo "X is up" > /debug/tracing/marker
>
> I can implement a marker feature (logdev does this). I'll see if I can get
> something working this week.
Cool, I assumed this would require support for variable length entries.
Even if it would be very limited in length, like 16 bytes, it would be useful.
> > +[This feature is not implemented yet!]
> > +Check your kernel log. If there are messages about mmiotrace losing events,
>
> This is something of higher priority to implement. I'll work on that
> first.
Great!
> > +this is due to buffer overrun, and the trace is incomplete. You should enlarge
> > +the buffers and try again. [How?]
>
> I pretty much have the infrastructure in place to implement this. Now it's
> just time to do it ;-)
Thank you :-)
--
Pekka Paalanen
http://www.iki.fi/pq/
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